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Benedict, Marie

Summary: In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BEN

Brown, Rita Mae

Summary: "Fair Haristeen is known throughout Crozet, Virginia, as a good horse vet and a better man. So when Ben Wagner, a new vet in town, is found dead in his unopened clinic, local police turn to Fair for help. Meanwhile, Candida Perez, one of Crozet's oldest and most beloved citizens, is found dead. The bickering of her children over her will and the family's collection of historical letters...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRO

Brown, Rita Mae

Summary: The discovery of a body in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains dredges up mysteries that have lingered from Revolutionary Virginia through the Civil War and beyond, in a supernaturally thrilling new tale from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. A trial is underway in Albemarle County, where Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her trusty crew of two- and four-legged friends...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRO

McKinlay, Jenn

Summary: "Spring is livening up Briar Creek after a long, cold winter, and newlyweds Lindsey and Sully could not be happier. Even though the upcoming mayoral election is getting heated, everything else in town is coming up daffodils . . . until a body is found. Ms.Cole, a librarian and current candidate for town mayor, is shocked when she opens her trunk to discover a murder victim who just so happens...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction McKinlay 2022

McKinlay, Jenn

Summary: "Briar Creek Public Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular archivist conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MCX

Johnstone, William W.

Summary: "A hot meal, a hard drink, and maybe a friendly hand of poker-that's all Mac Mackenzie wants when he drifts into the small town of Harcourt City, Montana. What he gets is a fistful of trouble. When he defends a saloon girl from the unwanted advances of some local toughs, he earns the wrath of the town's powerful namesake, Oscar Harcourt. Harcourt rules this place with an iron fist-and a steely...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOH

Henry, Emily

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "The only people Nora Stephens is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to North Carolina when Libby begs her for a sisters' trip away--with visions of a transformation for Nora, who she's convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HEN

Irwin, Sophie

Summary: "When shy Miss Eliza Balfour married the austere Earl of Somerset, twenty years her senior, it was the match of the season -- no matter that he was not the husband Eliza wanted. Now, ten years later, Eliza is widowed. Suddenly, she is left titled, rich, and, for the first time in her life, utterly in control of her own future. She's always lived by society's conventions, but now, Eliza has...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

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Wingate, Lisa

Summary: "Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WIN

Whitehead, Colson

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown, furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHI

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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHI

Steel, Danielle

Summary: Five successful women play for high stakes in their careers at a boutique literary and talent agency where newcomer Jane Addison quickly discovers there are damaging secrets hidden behind its doors. Jane Addison is an ambitious young woman with big dreams of owning her own company someday. At twenty-eight, she arrives in New York to start a job at Fletcher and Benson, a prestigious talent...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STE

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STE

Garmus, Bonnie

Summary: "Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with--of all...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GAR

Wiseman, Ellen Marie

Summary: "Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary -- awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears -- seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WIS

Ward, Jesmyn

Summary: Ward (Salvage the Bones) tells the story of three generations of a struggling Mississippi family in this astonishing novel. "We don't walk no straight lines. It's all happening at once. All of it. We all here at once." This is the explanation 13-year-old Jojo is provided by his grandmother, the family matriarch, on her deathbed. "I'll be on the other side of the door," she reassures him, "With...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WAR

Van Pelt, Shelby

10 holds on 3 copies

Summary: For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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DeMille, Nelson

Summary: "Daniel Graham MacCormick--Mac for short--seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he's living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat, The Maine. Mac served five years in the Army as an infantry officer with two tours in Afghanistan. He returned with the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts, scars that don't tan, and a boat with a big bank loan. Truth be told, Mac's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEM

Todd, Charles

Summary: The Armistice of November 1918 ended the fighting, but the Great War will not be over until a Peace Treaty is drawn up and signed by all parties. Representatives from the Allies are gathering in Paris, and already ominous signs of disagreement have appeared. Sister Bess Crawford, who has been working with the severely wounded in England in the war's wake, is asked to carry out a personal...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TOD

Benjamin, Chloe

Summary: It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children -- four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness -- sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEN

Jobb, Dean

Summary: "I the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Poison was his weapon of choice. Structured around the doctor's London murder trial in 1892, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream exposes the blind trust given to the medical practitioners, as well as the flawed detection methods, bungled investigations, corrupt...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JOB

Hooper, Kay

Summary: "A town shrouded in the occult. An evil that lurks in the dark. The SCU returns in a hair-raising novel from New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper. Nellie Cavendish has very good reasons to seek out her roots, and not only because she has no memory of her mother and hardly knew the father who left her upbringing to paid caregivers. In the eight years since her twenty-first birthday, very...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HOO

Bestor-Siegal, Amanda

Summary: Paris, 2015. A crowd gathers outside the Chauvet home in the affluent suburban community of Maisons-Larue, watching as the family's American au pair is led away in handcuffs after the sudden death of her young charge. The grieving mother believes the caretaker is to blame, and the neighborhood is thrown into chaos, unsure who is at fault--the enigmatic, young foreigner or the mother herself,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BES

Hannon, Irene

Summary: "Katherine Parker is on the cusp of having everything she ever wanted - fame, money, and acclaim. So why isn't she happy? In search of answers, she comes incognito to Hope Harbor on the Oregon coast for some R&R. Maybe in her secluded rental house overlooking the serene Pacific she'll be able to calm the storm inside. Coffee shop owner Zach Garrett has found his niche after a traumatic loss -...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HAN

Patterson, James

Summary: "In a Virginia penitentiary, Detective Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped to convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse. 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as 'M' lures the detective out...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAT

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2019

Robb, J. D.

Summary: At the star-studded party celebrating the premiere of a movie based on one of her cases, Lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers the actress who played Peabody drowned in the lap pool and investigates.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub./Gale Cengage Learning 2012

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROB

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